Experimental tracks that explore—and define—the unknown.

Signal to Noise

2001’s »Anima« was the third album released by Sasu Ripatti under his Vladislav Delay moniker and marked a turning point in the stylistic development of the prolific producer. Clocking in at roughly 62 minutes, the single piece draws on dub aesthetics while working with Musique concrète-like methods through the liberal use of samples to create a dreamlike logic. Muffled voices, lush chords, subtle rhythms and indefinable sound events are not so much integrated into a composition with a predetermined outcome but rather engage with each other freely in a constant sonic flow, forming constellations in one moment before moving on to connect with other elements in the next one. »Anima« marked the first time Ripatti was using a DAW in his working process, creating a piece constantly in motion that subtly evolves over time. This vinyl reissue on the German Keplar label follows up on the 20th anniversary edition of 2000’s »Multila« and will be complemented by a ten-minute long version of the original piece, previously only available on the CD version released by the artist on his own Huume label in 2008. 

After the release of his »Ele« and »Entain« albums in 1999 and 2000, respectively, Ripatti took the 1998 independent movie »Hurlyburly« as a conceptual starting point to experiment with different gear and production methods. »Until then I had worked with an old MSQ-700 MIDI sequencer and an Ensonic EPS16 sampler/sequencer that had one or two MB of sampling memory and mixed the music live on a Mackie, which was very limiting arrangement-wise,« says Ripatti. Loading a slightly shortened version of the film into his DAW however allowed him to play along to it with the DrumKAT MIDI controller, triggering and playing all the sounds that can be heard on »Anima« while also contributing synths, bass and other sounds during repeated playthroughs before mixing a total of six stereo tracks together. »This way, after I had edited out most of the few parts that had music in them, I was in the movie; almost like an extra character playing music,« explains Ripatti. »This was certainly the most organic way in which I have ever made music, and I have never again approached another record like this.« 

While »Anima« sounded like an unusual Vladislav Delay record at the time of its release, it also prefigured many of the developments Ripatti would go through in the course of his long career. Combining visceral immediacy with a sense of abstraction, it is far more than a mere missing link in his discography but rather a conceptually and musically outstanding piece of work that remains as engaging as it was 21 years ago.

All tracks composed and recorded by Vladislav Delay.  
Originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001.  
Remaster and cut by Kassian Troyer @ D&M.  
Art direction and design by Marc Hohmann.  
Text by Kristoffer Cornils.

Anima

Vladislav Delay - Anima (Version / 2022 Remaster)

Various - Waking Life
©Waking Life - WL001
3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Portugal, 2022.

Waking Life rescue pack has been gifted to people who
donated their Waking Life tickets to the festival when corona hit
in 2020.

https://www.discogs.com/release/23696516-Various-Waking-Life





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Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2139310

Saccades

Agoya

Bunga Bule

meow chat

oni (they)

Surreal

Pearl 2

Track 2 from 'ashbalkum remixes,' released November 17th on Human Pitch: https://8salamanda8.bandcamp.com/album/ashbalkum-remixes

Salamanda - Coconut Warrior (Tristan Arp Firefly Dub)

The Heart of the Anchoress

Proud To Employ A Qualified Ghost

Look Mum No Hands

Kikimoro

Excerpts from DISC14 Difficult Messages coming out 27 January on Disciples / Lower Floor https://disciples.ffm.to/difficultmessages

Time Designers - Passive Tempos

project mirrors

runners

Wide Scope Protocol
‘Swan Cake’
Vinyl/Digital/Streaming
7th April 2023
Modern Obscure Music

Wide Scope Protocol is the new project from Barcelona-born composer, film score writer and producer Javier Rodero Villa. ‘Swan Cake’, his free-form debut album, will be released on April 7th, 2023, through Modern Obscure Music.

‘Swan Cake’ is a collection of works composed of long landscapes, psychedelic passages, and brain dance cuts reminiscent of the sounds of Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Manuel Gotching, Cocteau Twins, Stereolab and Moon Duo. During a two year “stage” living in London, Rodero Villa wanted to explore new territories far away from his background of composing film scores, with fellow Spaniard Pedro Vian giving him his Modern Obscure Music platform to experiment without limits. 

‘Swan Cake’ is 10 tracks of scintillating emotion with tender melodies, undulating euphoria and deep cinematic soundscapes showcasing the entrancing nature of Wide Scope Protocol’s sonic palette. The eerie atmosphere pulsates throughout the album as twinkling synths combine with icy, IDM-tinged fx and slow-burning, rhythmic vibrations.

Rodero Villa was a lover of music from an early age and took his early influences from the sound of bands like The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 (Swan Cake closes with a version of their legendary song Repeater)., and Low in addition to soundtrack composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Morricone and Carter Burwell.

Rodero Villa attended the ESCAC Film Academy in Barcelona, from which he graduated in Editing and Post Production. Given his musical and film training, coupled with his 15 years’ experience as a film editor and propelled by his mastery of the film language, Rodero went on to pursue a career in film scoring.

His first film, ‘Ghost Graduation’ (Javier Ruiz Caldera 2012, 20th Century Fox), was characterized by electronic sounds and experimental synthesizers combined with stringed instruments and percussion.  In 2015 Rodero Villa was nominated for the Feroz Awards along with composers such as Shigeru Umebayashi and Alberto Iglesias for his work in ‘Spy Time’ (Javier Ruiz Caldera 2015, Warner Bros). Further film score compositions include ‘Valley of The Death’ (Sony Pictures), the upcoming film, ‘A Man Of Action’ (Netflix Original) - and a variety of soundtracks for series and documentaries like ‘Ciudades a Contraluz’, ‘Le Jour de Glorie’ or the upcoming: ‘The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld’.

Rodero Villa is currently working on a new TV Show while preparing the next Wide Scope Protocol album.


01. A Simple Plan
02. Editor’s Choice
03. Swan Cake
04. Safety Matches
05 Black Folder
06. Upstream Quest
07. Vermouth
08. Brickley K
09. Crystal Clear
10. Repeater S3

Wide Scope Protocol - A Simple Plan

Oceanic - Choral Feeling [Nous’klaer LP 007]

Tracklist
1. Wren’s Joy
2. Self-fulfilling
3. Sing It to Happen
4. KxT
5. Cac/cio
6. Open Them Open
7. Sunshine, Dear
8. C-Loli
9. Even If I Lose everything 
10. Who Comes Next?

The Album is out on January 27 

Pre-order: https://ffm.to/choralfeeling

Choral Feeling

Buy/Stream

Oceanic - Even If I Lose Everything - Nous'klaer LP 007

Hard Fantasy lands on All Centre with a 5 track EP, Mechanicus, exploring the distinctive experimental style of the London-based producer's sound.

Rogue Advisor emerges with atmospheric sound design. Pummeling drums provide an industrial groove whilst a piercing siren sounds above, its intensity rising to a fever pitch as the track progresses.

Mechanicus is available across all platforms on the 3rd of February.

@yungadultxx

Mechanicus

Hard Fantasy - Rogue Advisor

Following his recent ‘Cute Melody, Window Down!’ LP on Local Action, as well as previous releases on Central Processing Unit, Hypercolour, and more 96 Back now turns his sights to Will Saul’s Aus Music. For his first appearance on the label, the Sheffield-based DJ/producer delivers four exceptionally produced, off-kilter, and wholly unique tracks sculpted for dark rooms and headphones in equal parts.

96 Back 'Crass'

96 Back - Syrup

Evita Manji - Spandrel?
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 136
Release Date: 30 January 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/Spandrel

In evolutionary biology, the term spandrel refers to the features of an organism that aren't developments for survival, and seemingly possess no obvious purpose. The word is taken from an architectural label for the triangular spaces in the corner of an arch: small aesthetic elements that provide symmetry and demarcate boundaries. Musician and vocalist Evita Manji asks an opaque question on their debut album, wondering in the face of immense loss what elements of ourselves might be for endurance, and what might just be decoration. Their tracks, pieced together from the vapors of contemporary club music, baroque pop, and experimental sound design, are a way for Manji to examine their relationship with the world at large and within, disassembling systems of control and highlighting interconnectedness.

Manji has been an ethereal presence on the scene for the last few years, collaborating with numerous artists as both a sound artist and a creative director. Last year, they launched their own platform myxoxym, where they debuted two singles from "Spandrel?" and assembled an ambitious fundraiser compilation featuring Rainy Miller, Palmistry, Cecile Believe and others, raising money for Greek wildlife fund ANIMA. Performing across the world at festivals such as Unsound, Lunchmeat, and Rhizom, Manji has also appeared at clubs in Berlin and London, and was picked to represent the Shape+ platform in 2022. These experiences teem through "Spandrel?", helping them weave a complex artistic tapestry that seeks to look far beneath the surface of existence, attempting to balance the doom of global climate meltdown with themes of self-actualization, love, and bodily autonomy.

The album opens on the title track, an introductory précis that prepares listeners for what they're about to hear. Manji's vocals hum with a plugged-in sense of cybernetic melancholia, filtering the world's barrage of rhythms and harmonic themes into lithe, clubwise pop that's buoyed by their advanced sonics. From there, we're wrenched into the sadness of atmospheric lament 'Pitch Black', a meditation on death that submerges deep bass beneath layers of choral bliss, evoking the church and the dancefloor without sacrificing the power of each polar element. Their darkness is pushed from the inside to the outside on 'Oil/Too Much’, a commentary on the oil industry from the perspective of the animal kingdom that doubles as a neon-hued expression of contemporary depression. But it's on 'Body/Prison’ where Manji sounds most naked, speaking honestly about their life's darkest moments and confessing their deepest feelings over searing trance-inspired synths and grotesque percussion.

"Spandrel?" is an album that takes time to unravel, and Manji's themes resonate through history that's older than pop music. It's tragic, romantic, and poetic, and resolutely refuses to turn away from the era's most urgent concerns.

Production, writing, composition: Evita Manji
Co-production 'XYZ/Labyrinth': Ludwig Wandinger
Mix: Evita Manji
Master: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Spyros Droussiotis
Mask: Hermes Pittakos

Spandrel?

Evita Manji - Closer to Midnight (PAN 136)

Evita Manji - Pitch Black (PAN 136)

Tzusing - 孝忍狠 (Filial Endure Ruthless)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 123S
Release Date: 02 February 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/FilialEndureRuthless

Tzusing shares '孝忍狠 (Filial Endure Ruthless)', the first single from the upcoming full-length album '绿帽 Green Hat' out via PAN on March 31st.

Mastered by Enyang Urbiks
Cover photography by Xiaopeng
Artwork by Virgile Flores

Tzusing - 孝忍狠 (Filial Endure Ruthless) (PAN 123S)

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Signal to Noise

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